I need your advice to solve a problem.I am trying to make a shared partition where to put all media contents to be shared between my computers.I made a 250 Gb partition on my disk, I formatted it with xfs filesystem (mkfs.xfs /dev/sda7).Then I made a new mount point where to mount it (/mnt/storage) and I added it to my /etc/fstab as follows:

/dev/sda7 /mnt/storage xfs noatime,auto,rw,users,umask=0222 0 2

I have the following issues:it is not possible to read the partition through the /media directory. It appears in it as /dev/sda7 but as normal user it is not possible to read and write it.I was able to make it writable and readable through a chmod 777 /dev/sda7 but I fear that, while this worked, it was unnecessary (too many permissions for everybody?).Besides, while booting a message similar to this appears:fsck.xfsbad superblock, bad option....

This message does not seem to harm the system. I can see and write the partition but I believe things can be done better.Can anyone explain what's wrong with the settings I did?

I did not set up it through VASM.I would have set it up during the installation process but the installer gives no option for mount points other than those listed.I just formatted the partition, made the /mnt/storage mount point and modified /etc/fstab.As I told it, I can read and write the /mnt/storage directory (I chmoded it to 777) but I am not able to have it work through the /media directory (that would be a more elegant way I guess...)How are the /mnt and /media directory connected?

I should have fixed this issue.There was an option I put in /etc/fstab that was not accepted by fsck.xfs and caused the message during boot up.The bad option was umask=0222 that I used to manage permissions.Now the big partition is correctly mounted and linked to the /media directory.I granted read and write permissions to various users.It seems to me everything works fine now.